Example sentences of "in [num] [noun] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time in fourteen years that he was travelling alone , his best friend having died of pneumonia only weeks before . |
| 2 | Austen Chamberlain was equally enthusiastic at the time , but later put the occasion into somewhat more critical perspective by saying that it was the only time in fourteen years that he had ever known Baldwin to influence a Cabinet decision . |
| 3 | Sitting there , stroking her , the ball of his thumb soothing over and over but never so long in one place that he made her hand sore , he let his voice caress her into sleep whose dream-depths crushed her in peacock and navy . |
| 4 | When I was writing an essay on Bernard Shaw , I read in one biography that he had attended a Wesleyan school and had always been at the bottom of his form . |
| 5 | It was only when nine bottles disappeared in one morning that he decided to lie in wait for the thief . |
| 6 | It is reflected in two themes that he stressed then , in work reported in the influential set of three papers appearing in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy in the late 1860s . |